On Tuesday, 16th of September three of our Kilian’s Shortfilm festival winners and Ms. Kavanagh have departed to Helsinki to participate in the ‘Mobile Movies und Sounddesign‘ workshops and to represent St. Kilian’s German School Dublin in the REFO ‘Nordeuropa filmt’ festival, where they will run against other students from the German school in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm. In total 22 students and 13 teachers will come together for two days, from the 17th to 19th of September to film and exchange ideas. In groups of 10, the students will receive training in mobile filming and the use of mobile cameras. The topic of the festival is based on Dziga Vertov’s manifesto of 1923. Dziga Vertov or David Abelevich Kaufman was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist who is well-known for his avant-garde documentary “Man with a Movie Camera (1929)“, which has been awarded the 8th best film ever made.
‘I am cine-eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. I free myself for today and forever from human immobility. I’m in constant movement. I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse’s mouth. I fall and rise with the falling and rising bodies. This is I, the machine, maneuvering in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations. Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.’ (Dziga Vertov: manifesto of 1923)
The ‘Mobile Movies und Sounddesign’ seminar is followed by a screening of all winning films in the legendary Orion cinema. We are thrilled to announce that all St. Kilian’s winning films are due to be entered into the competition: “Dark days” Outstanding contribution winner by Joshua Brown (11th class), ”Precious Time” Junior Category winner by Audria Kühnrich and Rebecca McDonnell (8th class), “Bear Grylls in urban Dublin” Audience Award winner by Ben Schönfeld and Sebastian Toomey (6th Class), “Impuissance” Senior Category winner by LfI Terminale students and “Jojo” Animation Category winner by Anna Heisterkamp. After the screening a jury will award the best films! We wish the very best of luck to our filmmakers!
